Lead Engineer

Take a business problem and come up with the technical strategy (push vs pull etc; real time vs batches; sync vs async) within the team; high level design and lead the implementation
- Need minimal directions or guidance and collaborate with SDEs across teams working on the same or similar business problem
- You showcase exemplary behaviour in your work – your design; delivery; code; processes all set examples for your team
- Influence your team’s technical and business strategy by suggesting novel approaches
- Able to communicate your ideas and get feedback from different stakeholders and drive convergence to achieve the right outcomes
- Help elaborate requirements where necessary
Programming
- Demonstrate in depth knowledge of IDE; language and toolset in language of choice. ( Java + Spring boot+ Elastic search + Microservices)
- Implement critical path components in a large or complex or project.
- Demonstrate excellent understanding of language & framework and a good working knowledge of the abstraction layer underneath
- Profile and optimise code
- Understand threads; threading model and concurrent programming
- Comfortably test drive any feature/comfortable with TDD cycle
- Demonstrate a good knowledge of other programming languages & paradigms and when to apply them
- Comfortably debug/find complex problems
Design
- Identify and apply appropriate design patterns to problems
- Comfortably develop large features
- Understand Idempotence
- Actively practice the boy scout principle; leaves design; code in a better state than when arrived
- Demonstrate a good understanding of cohesion; SOLID and how to apply
Development Practice
- Automate everything by default
- Build a CI/CD pipeline
- Automate security scanning and performance testing as part of build
Infrastructure
- Demonstrate a good grasp of multiple operating systems
- Demonstrate a good grasp of scripting techniques
- Demonstrate expertise in one database & good grasp of multiple data storage paradigms and when to apply other technologies
- Understand when to apply appropriate infrastructure technologies
Security
- Write secure code by default
- Use tools to perform deep security probes
- Understand server hardening